V3.co.uk reports that NSS Labs test highlights the IE9 browser as the safest by a wide margin

A test of browser security against socially engineered malware aimed at European computer users has shown Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 to be vastly superior to the competition.

IE9 caught 92 per cent of threats in tests conducted online by NSS Labs in April, while IE8 caught 90 per cent. By contrast Safari 5, Chrome 10 and Firefox 4 all caught just 13 per cent, and Opera blocked just one in 20.